Fete Date Set in Gee Werk Col On Date
An event titled Fete is planned in Gee Werk Col with a designated date and activities announced. Organizers highlight community participation and a schedule of local performances and refreshments.
17 Sep 1850
Page 1
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Newspaper
Wisconsin Argus
Location
Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1850
Page
1
An event titled Fete is planned in Gee Werk Col with a designated date and activities announced. Organizers highlight community participation and a schedule of local performances and refreshments.
A reflective piece argues Napoleon shaped modern state power through war and legislation, praising his organizational genius while noting war’s grim costs. It contrasts rapid military action with slow hunger, lauding Europe’s resistance and England’s confinement of Napoleon, then notes the opening of an electric telegraph line between London and Paris with experimental success.
The narrative recounts Stewart a famed gambler from Gambier who fled from Vicksburg to Little Rock amid Lynch Law. A feud with Col Chilldress escalates into a street confrontation. Judge Johnson intervenes to halt the fight. Stewart later dies in Austin after a Poker dispute with a Creole, his death marked by a fatal pistol and knife wound. The piece also notes scientific critique of Washington Monument stone and a brief political aside.
A fragmentary letter from Mrs Mouser, read aloud in a London paper, exposes a quarrel over fidelity and marital duties. The missive, apparently authored by Amelia Mouser, references rumors of divorce and wandering infidelity. The text reveals satire on marriage, affection, and social scandal.
Capt Davis of the 5th Brigade Thornton was picked up from a steamer by a crew near City, still alive and floating on a spar after a frigid incident. He is doing well and expected to reach Chicago tonight. The Massachusetts census reports population growth and economic progress, noting a notable rise over the past decade and pointing to prosperity in the state.
The Albany Evening Journal reprints an engrossed version of the fugitive slave bill, noting passage by the Senate and a lengthier publication. The abstract outlines commissioners, posse power, testimony rules, fines for obstructing enforcement, and fees for U.S. officials, with amendments adding harsher penalties and trial proposals. Controversy spreads to McKennan’s dissension and administrative friction in the Interior Department.
A Selkirk settlement caravan six hundred miles north arrives in St Paul amid flood chaos in the Red River valley. Carts pulled by horses and oxen navigate twenty streams as the travel party seeks St Paul markets for goods and trade.
The Nepsui minister Judge Bahadur, a Rajpoot nobleman, is described as brave yet tragic. He leapt into the Soonderlande waters during a tiger hunt, survived, but later confronted his uncle the prime minister at the Durbar and died in a violent fray. His brothers and followers fought, many injured or killed, prompting the monarch to declare Bahadur prime minister after the incident. Also noted: a legal ruling in Alleghany county on church building recovery suits, and other railroad, weather, and regional notices.
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